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ВИТГЕНШТЕЙН И ПЛАТОН: ВОПРОС О ДИАЛОГЕ
WITTGENSTEIN AND PLATO: THROUGH THE QUESTION OF DIALOGUE.

Author(s): KIRILL RODIN
Subject(s): Ancient Philosphy, Analytic Philosophy, Rhetoric
Published by: Новосибирский государственный университет
Keywords: Wittgenstein; Plato; language-game; dialogical form;

Summary/Abstract: Wittgenstein’s Anti-Platonism in a field of ethics, philosophy of religion and philosophy of mathematics is a common place in Wittgenstein studies. But Wittgenstein’s approach to Plato and especially the way Wittgenstein reads Plato’s dialogues are usually dismissed. In the article, I recollect nearly all passages in Wittgenstein’s texts where Wittgenstein gives any quotations from Plato or any comments on Plato and Socrates. I analyze contexts in which these quotations and comments emerge. Then I argue that the only theme Wittgenstein was interested in Plato’s dialogues was the dialogical form itself and that the nature of language or the nature of knowledge (as a part of Platonistic discourse) appears to be of no interest for Wittgenstein.

  • Issue Year: XI/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 194-202
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian